Anne Thompson on The Kids Are All Right @ LAFF

indieWIRE's Anne Thompson was one of the many critics who championed Lisa Cholodenko's The Kids Are All Right after the movie's world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival last January. 

On Thursday, Cholodenko's film - which will be released by Focus Features on July 9 - was the opening night movie of the Los Angeles Film Festival. And Thompson, who saw the movie again Thursday, reports that it's even better now than it was in Park City:

The movie played great—Cholodenko told me she had “tightened” the film since its Sundance debut in January. My seat-mate, Roadside Attractions’ Howard Cohen, agreed that it was even funnier and sexier than we remembered—it plays like a relationship comedy. Even with its comedic bent, because the film has enough dramatic moments and a requisite Big Scene, I am more than ever convinced that Annette Bening will nab an Oscar nom for her performance as one of two lesbian parents of two teen kids, one from each mom and both sired by the same sperm donor (Mark Ruffalo), a laid-back restaurateur and commitment-phobe. Julianne Moore is just as strong—and she and Ruffalo are very sexy.

You can read Thompson's full write-up at Thompson on Hollywood.